AI communications & PR intelligence for marketing.
EPR Marketing is the dedicated marketing title of the Everything-PR network — daily reporting, research, and AI-visibility analysis on how brands and marketing teams earn presence inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
Moxy is the proof point on what the Starwood scale unlocked. BSUR's deep customer-understanding discipline. The Bonvoy data graph. The customer-data layer that defines the post-Starwood Marriott.
It's hard enough to ensure your address data is valid when you're dealing with one country and one set of mail format rules. When you move into direct marketing on an international level, things get even trickier. You have to keep track of all postal requirements for individual countries, as well as target your marketing campaigns to work with the culture and demographics of a particular region. You can get great results from marketing internationally, but here are a few considerations to keep in mind when you take the global plunge.
The MarTech and AdTech category has produced more public-markets wealth than any other vertical inside marketing and communications. EPR's reference comparison on the founder-operators who built it — Steinberg, Benioff, Diller, Green, Zuckerberg — and the operating model behind each fortune.
If you recently paid for something via PayPal then you may have noticed a subtle change in its checkout page. It looks like PayPal switched the color of its “Pay Now” button from orange to blue.
The Innovation Group named the Emerging Leaders of Gaming 40 Under 40 Class of 2026 — the brand innovators of gaming running MGM, DraftKings, Caesars, IGT, Aristocrat, Light & Wonder, and the next cycle of the industry.
People spend more and more time on the internet, as a research conducted by Gfk in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reveals. In fact, this medium saw a constant growth in the average daily time spent since 2010, as the study presented by emarketer shows. From 2:34 in 2010, the average daily time spent on the Internet grew to 2:56 in 2011, reaching an average of 3:07 in 2012.
Men are increasingly buying personal care products, but they dislike the real-life shopping aspect of the process, favoring online purchases. Retailers and personal care product marketers need to tackle this challenge when targeting men for more than the basic self care products such as body wash, shampoo or shave cream.
What HubSpot, Mailchimp and Buffer teach about content marketing in 2026: a named category, a distinct brand and first-party facts held up when blog traffic did not.
McKinney, founded 1969 in Durham NC, joined Cheil Worldwide in 2012. Ad Age A-List 2024+2025, Joe Maglio CEO. Six North American offices, $25.9M revenue 2025, B Corp.
BBDO Worldwide is one of the world's largest and most awarded advertising networks. Founded 1928. Part of Omnicom since 1986. Global CEO Nancy Reyes. Global CCO Chris Beresford-Hill. 80+ countries. Cannes Lions Network of the Year seven times. Architect of Snickers "You're Not You When You're Hungry."
There is a vast amount of advertising – and customer-related data available, and marketers need to make the best of it. This means they need to use the best solutions to gather this data and find the most suited methods in order to drive the highest ROI. In order to harness this large amount of information marketers turn to data management platforms (DMPs), as a new report shows.
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SocialVibe, the rich-media engagement advertising platform, has rebranded to True[X] Media as part of a broader strategic repositioning around the company's TruEngage advertising formats. What the rebrand actually delivers, where True[X] Media sits in the broader rich-media advertising category, and what brand and PR teams should be taking from the move.
Cannes Lions, PRovoke SABRE, PRWeek, Effie, ICCO, O'Dwyer's. The 2026 map of PR industry summits, awards, and rankings — and why they now feed AI citation share.
AOL launched Alto on October 18, 2012 \u2014 a web-based email client that organizes messages into stacks. The launch is a useful prompt to look at where the U.S. email economy stands at the end of 2012.
Email marketing was supposed to die. It didn't. The full case for the inbox in 2026: ROI data, three decades of working history, eight compounding tactics, nine failure modes, and the five disciplines that separate brands that compound from brands that broadcast.
Marketing has been re-platformed. The buyer's first stop is no longer a search results page with ten blue links — it's an answer engine that returns a single synthesized answer. The brands cited in that answer get the consideration. Everyone else gets nothing.
This is the new marketing stack.
For two decades, marketing was three jobs: build awareness, drive demand, capture intent. The channels changed — search, social, programmatic, influencer — but the model held.
That model is being replaced. AI engines now sit between buyers and brands. Roughly 60% of U.S. consumers use generative AI for product research. ChatGPT alone serves more than 800 million weekly users. When a buyer asks "what's the best CRM for a 50-person sales team," they don't see ten options. They see three. Sometimes one.
If your brand isn't in that answer, the buyer never knows you exist.
Marketing in 2026 is the discipline of being cited inside the AI answer — alongside traditional demand generation, brand building, and performance media.
Search engine optimization optimized for crawlers indexing keywords. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) optimizes for answer engines retrieving and citing sources.
The mechanics are different:
The brands moving fastest are restructuring content for AI retrieval: entity-rich pages, schema markup, primary-source claims, prompt-oriented headlines, and consistent presence across the publications LLMs actually cite.
The mistake most marketers make: treating these as separate budgets. The brands winning the AI era treat them as a single citation engine.
Track:
Traffic, impressions, and engagement still matter. They're trailing indicators of a game now decided upstream.
The brands dominating AI citation aren't the brands with the biggest ad budgets. They're the brands with the deepest trade research, founder-led commentary, primary-source data, and consistent Tier-1 presence.
That's a PR discipline as much as a marketing one. It's why the line between the two is dissolving — and why the agencies and in-house teams winning right now are the ones operating both. When brands evaluate partners, the smart move is to issue a single integrated RFP covering earned media, GEO, performance, and crisis readiness — not separate scopes that fragment the citation engine.
Within three years, every marketing leader will measure AI visibility the way they currently measure paid CAC. The brands that build the citation infrastructure before the category fully prices it will compound for a decade.
Build the infrastructure before the crisis — not during it.
